CHAPTER SEVEN
No One Will Ever Know
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Meg: Okay, sorry about the last chapter, folks! But, today, I got a book called Wings, which is about butterfly-fairy things…
Emma: Ooh, I like!
Meg: Also, Naruto manga volume 41…
Bianca: Uh, what happened to numbers 1 through to 40?
Meg: Ah, I like skipping things…
Bianca: -_-
Meg: But, my favourite shop, Vamp-Games, is closing down for awhile. My picture of Sakura's and Naruto's kid is hanging up in that shop too, BTW.
Zikya: Uh, FYI, so is a lot of other peoples'…
Meg: Not listening to yooouuu…anyways, I also got a t-shirt – it's blue – and…Transformers Animated the video game!
Ratchet: Why would you wanna get it when you can't even play as me in the game?
Meg: I didn't think that sort of thing bothered you, doc-bot. Anyway, so I'm fairly happy with today's haul.
Bianca: Why did you get all this stuff?
Meg: For my birthday – which means I won't be getting anything on the actual day.
Emma: Isn't your birthday, like, six weeks away?
Meg: Early birthday presents.
Sunstreaker: That is just so…tacky.
Meg: No one asked you!! Anyway, my new favourite song is Second To None on the Transformers movie soundtrack. My favourite line goes "I'm a killer and I usually know my victims" and "I'll break ya jaw, you'll be sipping fried chicken through a crazy straw!" I also love the music. XD And the last song on the track, that basically goes "Transformers, robots in disguise…" =D
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Bumblebee's P.O.V:
As soon as we (as in me and Sideswipe) got to where the missile had been launched from, we saw what was wrong.
The bodies of three offlined Decepticons were lying there, two of them badly broken, and one of them covered with purple energon.
A fourth robot was lying there…as 'Sides and I transformed we realised that it was Ironhide.
Emma was kneeling beside him, her head on his chest, and she was sobbing.
"E-Emma?" I said, taking a few tentative steps towards her.
She gasped, and stood up quickly, turning around.
Purple energon tears leaked from her eyes – and stained her mouth.
I suddenly understood how Lugnut had died.
I couldn't stop what I thought.
Em nodded, and I could tell that she was hysterical. "It was my fault he died!" She yelled. "I couldn't protect him the way he protected me, and then I turned around and…and…I drained the life energy out of Lugnut!!" She broke down with a fresh wave of sobs. "I couldn't control my vampire side! I should have died instead of…of…" She couldn't even say his name.
"Uh, guys?" I heard 'Sides say into his com-link. "We're gonna need some assistance here…"
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Suddenly, Bee and 'Sides were both hit with electricity, which made them cry out, and then they were paralysed, lying there on the ground. They couldn't talk or move.
My optics widened in surprise, as Wasp landed on the ground before me. "W-Wasp?" My feelings immediately turned hostile and protective, angry. "What did I tell you!?"
Wasp's violet optics narrowed, and he opened his mouth slightly.
His vampire fangs gleamed.
My own optics narrowed. "Oh shit – don't tell me…did I..?"
He nodded. "You turned me into a freak of nature, Butterfly." He informed me.
Sarcastically I replied: "Ooh, so sorry about that – want me to finish the job?" I noticed that he wasn't attacking me, and I wondered why. "Or have you come here for some other reason?"
"Some other reason." He murmured.
"Then what?"
He didn't say anything.
"Are you going to attempt to put me offline?" I asked him.
He shook his head. "That was never my intention." Was his reply.
I sighed in frustration. "So then what!?"
He was looking at me strange.
I said: "Don't tell me you're in love with me!" I said it mockingly, but my voice was laced with fear. Why couldn't I read Wasp's CPU properly? Was he blocking me!?
"Don't flatter yourself!" Wasp snapped. "Okay, so if you must know, I came here to ask you for help!"
"What kind of help?" I wanted to know.
"Don't you know?" Wasp sighed. "You made me what I am, and now I have no idea how to control my vampire side!" It was as hard for him admit this as it had been for Ironhide (I gulped) to say that he loved me, even before dying.
"What, and you think I do!?" I gestured to Lugnut. "I just drank a Decepticon's energon!" I shuddered.
"Ew." Wasp agreed.
"But that's not really the point now, is it?" I argued.
"Well how the slag do you think I feel!?" Wasp suddenly yelled, and Bee's optics flashed. "What is it that humans say – you've made your bed now lie in it!?"
"Tell that to Fhantom!" I shouted.
"Who?" Wasp blinked.
I sighed. "The slagger who 'created' me," I made the quotation marks and everything. "He ruined my life for no good reason but you, my friend, oh were converted for a very good reason."
"Oh?" Wasp's optics sparkled. "And what would that be?"
"To keep you away from my family." I hissed. "I can't help you – I can't even help myself! But just give me a reason to do it," I said, referring to Cybetronian-homicide. "And I swear I will."
Wasp narrowed his eyes.
I narrowed mine back at him.
This might've turned into a staring contest, but suddenly the rest of the Autobots arrived.
And, I heard Optimus' voice through my com-link. "Emma, what's going on!?"
"Oh Primus, Optimus', so much!" I cried, as everything happened in a blur around me. I went on, as if nothing was happening: "Wasp just showed up and paralysed Bee and 'Sides because I turned him [Wasp] into a vampire because I'm a robot too now and Ironhide is dead he died protecting me and I got so upset that I drained Lugnut's energy because oh I'm a vampire too and Detroit is crawling with Decepticons and everyone just showed up to help and I'm an Autobot not a Decepticon like everyone's scanners show oh and we made a new friend called Angelina she's with us now and the military just showed up and Brawl and Blackout are dead…"
"So's Barricade!" Honey Bee yelled, running up to me. "Blitzwy killed him!"
I picked her up and held her close, continuing: "And Barricade's dead because Blitzwing killed him because said-robot is on our side now because he's Honey Bee's spark mate AND THE FALLEN HAS COME BACK!!!!!!!!"
Time seemed to stand still then. Everyone around me stopped moving, and no one said or did anything.
Except for Optimus. He said: "Princess Emma…"
"Yes?" I whispered.
Bee, who had been unparalysed, and was holding Shooting Star, came up to me.
"Do you have the Matrix?" Optimus asked me.
I reached into my servos, and pulled out my now seemingly small necklace pouch. "Yes Optimus," I said strongly. "I found it."
"Good," He said, and I could hear a renewed strength in his voice, but I didn't know what it meant. "Bring it back to Perth – we'll be waiting."
"What about Ironhide?" I whispered.
"Bring his body back," Optimus said. "And, Princess?"
"Yes?"
"Welcome to the Autobots…Butterfly."
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Meg: We just finished watching the first movie. Mum and Dad said they might not pay attention, but they did.
Emma: What did you do when Jazz died? Did you cry?
Meg: Tears pricked my eyes but, ask Mum and Dad – I yelled out Jazz's name.
Jazz: Aww, don't worry 'bout me lil' bitch, I'm okay in your fic.
Shadow: Yes – yes he is.
Meg: Listening to Refugee.
